Don Waldie and I were wandering through El Centro in Guadalajara, a little lost but quite content, when we stumbled across an archaeological museum tucked into the courtyard of one of the colonial buildings.

And there in a display case, so vivid and contemporary they looked wildly out of place, was a display of hightops used as a canvas.

Stunning and mysterious.

If we could only read a bit of Mixteco, we would have had so many of our questions answered.